Ground sloths are a diverse group of extinct sloths in the mammalian superorder Xenarthra. They varied widely in size with the largest, belonging to genera...
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arboreal tree sloths and extinct terrestrial ground sloths. Noted for their slowness of movement, tree sloths spend most of their lives hanging upside down...
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Megatherium (redirect from Giant ground sloth)
méga (μέγα) 'great' + theríon (θηρίον) 'beast') is an extinct genus of ground sloths endemic to South America that lived from the Early Pliocene through...
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Megalonyx (redirect from Jefferson's ground sloth)
Megalonyx (Greek, "great-claw") is an extinct genus of ground sloths of the family Megalonychidae, native to North America. It evolved during the Pliocene...
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but have now been shown by molecular results to be closest to extinct ground sloths of the family Mylodontidae. A study of retrovirus and mitochondrial...
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Nothrotheriops (redirect from Shasta ground sloth)
Nothrotheriops is a genus of Pleistocene ground sloth found in North America, from what is now central Mexico to the southern United States. This genus...
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Mylodontidae (redirect from Mylodontid ground sloths)
Mylodontidae is a family of extinct South American and North American ground sloths within the suborder Folivora of order Pilosa, living from around 23...
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three-toed sloths are the brown-throated sloth, the maned sloth, the pale-throated sloth, the southern maned sloth, and the pygmy three-toed sloth. In complete...
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Paramylodon (redirect from Harlan's Ground Sloth)
Paramylodon is an extinct genus of ground sloth of the family Mylodontidae endemic to North America during the Pliocene through Pleistocene epochs, living...
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Eremotherium (redirect from Panamerican Ground Sloth)
"steppe or desert" and θηρίον "beast") is an extinct genus of giant ground sloth in the family Megatheriidae. Eremotherium lived in southern North America...
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